Hosting a site using Github.

Hosting a site using Github

This tutorial was written by Digital Studio Student Assistant, Victor Truong. Learn more about Victor and our other student assistants here.

In this tutorial, we will be learning how to host a website using GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages offers a free option of hosting your own personal website. This website can be used and customized to your liking. I can be used for a blog or even a professional portfolio. Here’s how to get started.

Enter the above text into your index file for a very basic webpage. Next, you will need to commit the index file to your repository. You can do this one of two ways, you can either enter your repository on github.com to upload and commit the files or your can use GitHub desktop.